Spill baby spill, slippery politics

Piper Alpha was a North Sea oil production platform operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Ltd. The platform began production in 1976, first as an oil platform and then later converted to gas production. An explosion and resulting fire destroyed it on July 6, 1988, killing 167 men, with only 59 survivors. The death toll includes 2 crewmen of a rescue vessel. Total insured loss was about £1.7 billion (US$ 3.4 billion). At the time of the disaster the platform accounted for approximately ten percent of North Sea oil and gas production, and was the worst offshore oil disaster in terms of lives lost and industry impact.

The Kirk of St Nicholas in Union Street, Aberdeen has dedicated a chapel in memory of those who perished and there is a memorial sculpture in the Rose Garden of Hazlehead Park in Aberdeen. Thirty bodies were not recovered.

I'm reading your newspaper reports. Some of the most recent headlines:

That's Enough 'Kicking Ass', Mr. President ~ The Times

Obama's Crude Rhetoric is Simply Beyond the Pale ~ Daily Express

Barack Obama Compares Oil Spill to 9/11 ~ The Guardian

Obama Needs to Pipe Down ~ Daily Express

And, from our own Gray Lady:

Onshore Oil Spill Response is Described as Chaotic ~ NYTimes

You don't feel even a little bit sorry for them...or BP? Don't hold back, now.

Perhaps a bit more than his predecessors, I'd guess.

Not only that, they took the risks with OUR coastlines. So, no. I'm not sorry for them. This is what happens when you gamble with your money without thinking about what you are doing.

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Not only that, they took the risks with OUR coastlines. So, no. I'm not sorry for them. This is what happens when you gamble with your money without thinking about what you are doing.

put in the most POSITIVE light what the American people have done is to gamble with our kids future...this putting America so far into debt. I hate what corporations are doing probably even more than you do, but this line of yours is sanctimonious.